Minimizing and Exploiting Leakage in VLSI Design

1. Introduction
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

2. Existing Leakage Minimization Approaches
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

3. Computing Leakage Current Distributions
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

4. Finding a Minimal Leakage Vector in the Presence of Random PVT Variations Using Signal Probabilities
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

5. The HL Approach: A Low-Leakage ASIC Design Methodology
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

6. Simultaneous Input Vector Control and Circuit Modification
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

7. Optimum Reverse Body Biasing for Leakage Minimization
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

8. Part I: Conclusions and Future Directions
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

9. Exploiting Leakage: Sub-threshold Circuit Design
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

10. Adaptive Body Biasing to Compensate for PVT Variations
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

11. Optimum VDD for Minimum Energy
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

12. Reclaiming the Sub-threshold Speed Penalty Through Micropipelining
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

13. Part II: Conclusions and Future Directions
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

14. Design of the Chip
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

15. Implementation of the Chip
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

16. Experimental Results
Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

Keywords: Engineering, Circuits and Systems, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design